new owner of red footed tortoise (help needed)

[Shah]

hi everyone.
Im Shah from Malaysia.
I've been wanting to have this red footed tortoise for long and finally 2 weeks ago i got this as a gift from my friend.
The tortoise is around 6 months old,behaving normal and eating well.

However I noticed there are some beige spots on the plastron,should i be worried?or is it normal?

You guys can see the pic that I attached here.

TQIA

 

[Toddrickfl1]

hi everyone.
Im Shah from Malaysia.
I've been wanting to have this red footed tortoise for long and finally 2 weeks ago i got this as a gift from my friend.
The tortoise is around 6 months old,behaving normal and eating well.

However I noticed there are some beige spots on the plastron,should i be worried?or is it normal?

You guys can see the pic that I attached here.

TQIA

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Welcome to the forum. That looks like a little fungus. It can be treated with a cheap anti fungal cream.

What Shell Fungus (Shell Rot) Looks like

This is one of my RF females. They live in an outdoors pen and are rarely handled. However, yesterday, it was necessary for me to bring them indoors because of cooler than normal temperatures. I inspected each tortoise, and found that tortoise "C" had some shell fungus. Actually quite a lot...

tortoiseforum.org

 

[Shah]

Welcome to the forum. That looks like a little fungus. It can be treated with a cheap anti fungal cream.

What Shell Fungus (Shell Rot) Looks like

This is one of my RF females. They live in an outdoors pen and are rarely handled. However, yesterday, it was necessary for me to bring them indoors because of cooler than normal temperatures. I inspected each tortoise, and found that tortoise "C" had some shell fungus. Actually quite a lot...

tortoiseforum.org

Thank you...will try that out

 

[Yvonne G]

Your RF tortoise DOES need to live in humid conditions, however, having the substrate too wet causes that fungus you see starting to grow on your baby's shell.

 

[Shah]

Your RF tortoise DOES need to live in humid conditions, however, having the substrate too wet causes that fungus you see starting to grow on your baby's shell.

The substrate is not too wet...maybe the moss in the hiding...will adjust the humid in the hiding place... As for now the humidity is around 70-75...it is ok?

 

[Shah]

One more thing,i am using exo terra uvb 100 (25w) for my RF and the height of the uvb light is 12” from the substrate ... Is this acceptable?

 

[CliffordtheredfootTORT]

What I have read the coil uvb lights are not the greatest and could cause problems I would recommend a tube uvb light.